Brittany Wong lives in LA and covers love, sex and relationships for HuffPost.
Up to 75% of women treated for breast cancer report sexual problems at some point in their cancer journey.wasn’t prepared for how her sexuality would slip away during her breast cancer treatment.
“Losing my breasts was incredibly demoralising, seeing myself with loose, sewed-up skin, no nipples, and tubes hanging out of me was desexualising to the core,” said Lindley López, who is now 31 and the manager of community support at theAs her libido plummeted, the married mom of one said she remembers wondering: What if I never desire sex again? What if I can no longer climax? What if I can never see myself as a sexual being again? What if that side of me is forever lost?“The erotic...
When this topic is discussed, there’s a heightened focus on the visual: concerns about how reconstructed breasts will look outside of clothes, for instance, or how a sexual partner will react to a reconstructed nipple and areola. “Unfortunately, because many women still don’t hear about sexual health during cancer treatment, they may not realise the need to be proactive when it comes to managing treatment-related GSM, for instance,” Bober said.
“That’s especially if a woman is on long-term hormonal treatment which keeps ovarian function turned off and depletes systemic oestrogen in order to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence,” Bober said.
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